entanglement
Americannoun
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entanglements
plural
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the act of entangling.
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the state of being entangled.
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something that entangles; snare; involvement; complication.
noun
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something that entangles or is itself entangled
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a sexual relationship regarded as unfortunate, damaging, or compromising
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“Because of this entanglement, this whale is not able to move freely,” Harbor Breeze Cruises posted along with a video of the whale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Quantum entanglement occurs when two particles share properties in such a way that measurements of one can reveal information about the other, even when the particles are separated.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Court documents lay out the entanglement between Owens and Echard in vivid detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"This can, for example, create quantum entanglement between the electron and the quantum computer. The electron and the ion then share a joint quantum state."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Through some quantum-mechanical entanglement, Dad and Babou had ended up as teammates.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Not all businesses that rely on actual people moving through their interfaces will stand united against agents, either, especially when they have their own web of entanglements with the biggest A.I. companies.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
“People are right to think about conflicts of interest and not being involved in commercial entanglements with the labs,” Purser said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Vessel strikes and entanglements are leading causes of whale deaths, according to advocacy groups and government trackers worldwide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
It’s part of a broader change in Nolan’s telling: His Odysseus has far fewer sexual entanglements than Homer’s, keeping his devotion to Penelope more firmly in the foreground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
And the bombardment also failed to flatten the Germans’ barbed-wire entanglements, merely tossing the barbed wire around and creating even more of a barrier than before.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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